M. Tullius Cicero, In Catilinam, ed. Albert Curtis Clark, 1.17

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[17] servi mehercule mei si me isto pacto metuerent ut te metuunt omnes cives tui, domum meam relinquendam putarem: tu tibi urbem non arbitraris¹? et si me meis civibus iniuria suspectum tam graviter atque offensum viderem, carere me aspectu civium quam infestis omnium oculis conspici mallem: tu, cum conscientia scelerum tuorum agnoscas odium omnium iustum et iam diu tibi debitum, dubitas quorum mentis sensusque volneras, eorum aspectum praesentiamque vitare? si te parentes timerent atque odissent tui neque eos² ratione ulla³ placare posses, ut opinor⁴, ab eorum oculis aliquo concederes. nunc te patria, quae communis est parens omnium nostrum, odit ac⁵ metuit et iam diu nihil te⁶ iudicat nisi de parricidio suo cogitare: huius tu neque auctoritatem verebere nec iudicium sequere nec vim pertimesces?

In Catilinam. M. Tullius Cicero. ed. Albert Curtis Clark. Oxford. 1908.

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In L. Catilinam (Latin) (Cicero. M. Tulli Ciceronis Orationes, Volume 1. Clark, Albert Curtis, editor. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1908.)

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Against L. Catiline Perseus (Cicero. The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero, Volume 2. Yonge, Charles Duke, translator. London: Bell, 1856.) — 1.17 focus

[17] On my honour, if my slaves feared me as all your fellow-citizens fear you, I should think I must leave my house. Do not you think you should leave the city? If I saw that I was even undeservedly so suspected and bated by my fellow-citizens, I would rather flee from their sight than be gazed at by the hostile eyes of every one. And do you, who, from the consciousness of your wickedness, know that the hatred of all men is just and has been long due to you, hesitate to avoid the sight and presence of those men whose minds and senses you offend? If your parents feared and hated you, and if you could by no means pacify them, you would, I think, depart somewhere out of their sight. Now, your country, which is the common parent of all of us, hates and fears you, and has no other opinion of you, than that you are meditating parricide in her case; and will you neither feel awe of her authority, nor deference for her judgment, nor fear of her power?

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In Catilinam

1. arbitrare V: arbitraris. e. A

2. neque eos nec eos bs: neque illos V

3. ratione ulla α h: ulla ratione αβγ

4. tu opinor Cobet

5. odit ac om. α

6. diu nihil te CAV: diu de te nihil a: de te diu nihil t: diu nihil de te cett.

Commentary

Commentary on First Oration against Catiline (Select Orations of Cicero (Allen and Greenough's Edition). Greenough, James Bradstreet; Kittredge, George Lyman, editors. Boston, London: Ginn & Company, 1897.) focus

servi : emphatic, and hence preceding

si .

injuria , unjustly, wrongfully.

carere aspectu , be deprived of the sight of

aliquo concederes , would retire somewhere.

nunc : opposed to the cont. to fact

si , etc.

te nihil . . . cogitare , that you think of nothing (depending on

judicat ).

judicat : for tense, see § 466 (276, a); B. 259, 4; G. 230; H. 532, 2 (467, 2); H.-B. 485.

auctoritatem , etc.: observe the climax in both nouns and verbs.

M. Tullius Cicero In Catilinam 1.17

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